Note 87 — Chapter V · ORIGIN AND OUTBREAK OF ECCLESIASTICAL DISTURBANCES IN SCOTLAND.
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Baillie, Jan. 1637. ‘The last year (1636) our bishops guided all our estate, and became very terrible to our whole country.’ A later petition (1638) of the Scottish Privy Council complains of ‘the illimited power which the lords of the clergie in this kingdom have of late assumed—its unwarranted power.’